31 August 2013

"There are 3 kinds of atrocities: benign bloodbaths - which nobody cares about; constructive bloodbaths - which are the ones we like; and nefarious bloodbaths - which are the ones the bad guys do."

"You're responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions. You're not responsible for the predictable consequences of someone else's actions. The most important thing for me and for you is to think about the consequences of your actions. What can you affect."

These are the things to keep in mind. They're not just academic exercises. We're not analysing the media on Mars or in the XVIII century or something like that. We're dealing with real human beings, who are suffering and dying, being tortured and starving because of policies we are involved in, we, as citizens of democratic societies, are directly involved in, and are responsible for, and what the media are doing is ensuring that we do not act on or responsibilities, and that the interests of power are served, not the interests of the people suffering, not even the needs of the American people, who would be horrified if they realised that the blood that's dripping from their hands because of the way they're allowing themselves to be deluded and manipulated by the system

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"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. "

-- John Stuart Mill

"The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis." -